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Date: 05 December 2004
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich column on new journalism in America that panders to Nascar dads, 'moral values' voters and red states; discusses Brian Williams, NBC's new Nightly News anchor, and effort to try to repackage ABC anchor Peter Jennings as sentimental populist; offers other examples; photo (M)
Date: 06 December 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-15 17 Iraqi Civilians Working For U.S. Slain in Ambush Gunmen ambushed a bus full of unarmed civilians headed to work for the United States military in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing 17 and wounding 20 in an attack that underscored the increasing risks faced by ordinary Iraqis who are employed by the occupation force. A1 Secretive Weapons Panel The commission appointed to assess the state of American intelligence on weapons proliferation has been deliberating entirely in secret and may not depart from that practice before it issues a final report. A spokesman defended the closed-door approach, saying that the subjects being reviewed are delicate. A15 Iran Hints at Ploy in Arms Talks Iranian officials have made comments that hint that they have increased their nuclear activities since last year to put Iran in a better position to negotiate with the world. A6 Middle East Relations Warming Egypt released an Israeli convicted of spying, and Israel reciprocated by freeing six Egyptian infiltrators. The exchange reflected the expanding cooperation between the Middle East neighbors after several years of badly strained relations linked to the Palestinian uprising. A12 Lack of Aid Hurting Children A report by the British aid agency Oxfam says that about 45 million children around the world will die in the next decade because rich countries have failed to meet their aid promises. A12 Ukraine Leader Speaks Out President Leonid D. Kuchma of Ukraine said that if he were Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich, he would not run in a new runoff vote for president. Mr. Kuchma also accused the opposition leader, Viktor A. Yushchenko, of prolonging the electoral crisis by breaking a promise to revise Ukraine's political system. A1 Colombian Extraditions Rising President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia's government has extradited more than 170 drug trafficking suspects to the United States. Those extraditions have been used as political leverage both in disarmament negotiations with right-wing paramilitary commanders and in the effort to prod reluctant Marxist rebel groups into peace talks. A3 Sure of a Nuclear North Korea The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, says he is now certain that the nuclear material once monitored in North Korea has been converted into fuel for four to six nuclear bombs. A6 Askew Historical View in China An examination of some of the most widely used history textbooks in China reveal a mishmash of historical details that many Chinese educational experts themselves say are highly selective and often provide a distorted view of the recent past. A10 NATIONAL A16-21 Treasury Secretary Said to Be Leaving President Bush has decided to replace John W. Snow as treasury secretary and has been looking closely at a number of possible replacements, including the White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., said Republicans with ties to the White House. A21 The House of Representatives was scheduled to reconvene without any sign of compromise on a sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill sought by President Bush that is being blocked from a final vote by a group of defiant House Republicans close to the Pentagon. A21 Denver Parade Is ProtestedHundreds of Denver-area faithful headed downtown for a mild but determined protest of the city's annual Parade of Lights, which is organized by the local business community. The event normally shuns politics and anything controversial. A16 Tauzin Behind in House Race In South Louisiana, a Republican and a Democrat claimed victory in the final two House contests of the year. Charles Melancon, a former state lawmaker who portrayed himself as an independent Democrat, led Billy Tauzin III, a Republican, by 517 votes. A16 How to Sell a Candidate on TV Strategists for President Bush came to a startling realization: Democrats watch more television than Republicans. This led to an unusual step for a presidential campaign: it cut the proportion of money from broadcast television and diverted more to niche cable channels and radio. A18 President Bush's Short Visits In between appointing new cabinet members, President Bush did a speedy 25-hour drop-by in Canada last week. In Quebec, the president spent only 30 minutes at the National Archives of Canada, where he gazed at portraits of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. A18 Kennedy Center Honorees The honors, in their 27th year, have evolved into a weekend-long celebration of culture and the arts with receptions at the White House and the State Department and a gala event at the Kennedy Center that has become Washington's version of a Hollywood awards show. A21 SCIENCE/HEALTH New Drugs for Blood Cancer Two experimental drugs are showing strong early results in treating patients with a blood cancer that has grown resistant to the most commonly prescribed medicine, doctors reported. A18 F.D.A. Shifts Its Focus Members of Congress have said that the Food and Drug Administration is incapable of uncovering the perils of drugs that have been approved and are in wide distribution. A1 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Judge's Lengthy Backlog Leaves Plaintiffs Dangling Judge George B. Daniels of Federal District Court in Manhattan is the king of delayed decisions, statistics show, with 289 motions in civil cases pending for more than six months, the most of any federal judge in the nation. Critics say his approach is the judicial equivalent of a lawyer neglecting a client's case. A1 Lessons From Another State The Kentucky school system, which underwent a court-ordered revamping, offers a cautionary tale of what may lie ahead for New York City schools, which could get $5.6 billion more every year under a court-appointed panel's recommendation. A1 Spitzer's New Agenda Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, is known for taking on big business, not the dysfunctional state government. But now, as he prepares to run for governor in 2006, he has jumped into the fix-Albany debate. B1 An Olympic Ad Blitz New York's Olympic organizers have reserved almost all outdoor advertising space in the city in their bid for the 2012 Summer Games. B1 Neediest Cases B5 OBITUARIES B7 ARTS E1-12 SPORTSMONDAY D1-8 McCain Seeks Drug Legislation Senator John McCain said he plans to introduce legislation that requires some kind of regimen for the testing of Major League Baseball players. D2 BUSINESS DAY C1-18 The Two Faces of China China, in its twin roles as a producer and a consumer, has come to terrify many foreign business executives and attract others -- depending on whether they see the country as a competitor, a cheap source of supply or a market. C1 Universal Health Care Health care experts contend that the United States must inevitably adopt some kind of universal coverage to provide health insurance for the 45 million uninsured Americans. C16 Allegiance to the Mall The United States is now engaged in its greatest age of consumer spending, with consumption absorbing 80 percent of national income, resulting in the production of goods and services migrating overseas. C12 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 EDITORIAL A22-23 Editorials: Saving Iraq's election; talk about Scrooge; the G.O.P. vs. President Bush; new risks for salmon. Column: William Safire. Autos D9 Bridge E8 Crossword E4 Metro Diary B2 TV Listings E11 Weather D11
Date: 05 December 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-33 Ukraine Challenger Surges Viktor A. Yushchenko, the opposition candidate who is trying to remake Ukraine through a sweeping change of power, is now surging, and he is the leading candidate in a second presidential runoff that Ukraine's Supreme Court ordered. 8 Violence Continues in Iraq Militants carried out deadly strikes in Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul, with suicide car-bomb attacks on police stations and Kurdish militiamen that killed at least 26, the latest in an increasingly violent assault on the country's beleaguered security forces. 26 Increasing attacks have curtailed the activities of Japanese troops in southern Iraq, but Japan's government appears poised to extend their mission and provide continued support for the Bush administration. 26 British Financial Aid for Malawi Britain pledged more than $100 million to increase the salaries of thousands of nurses and other health workers in Malawi, and to increase the number of medical staff being trained in the impoverished African nation. The aid will enable Malawi to try to offset the drain of British nurses. 10 Mozambique's Elections Ending Mozambique's governing party, Frelimo, and its presidential candidate, Armando Guebuza, were headed for an unexpectedly sweeping victory in the nation's third national elections since a civil war ended in 1992. 33 Poppy Spraying in Afghanistan Unidentified planes have been spraying opium poppy fields with a toxic chemical in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai called in the ambassadors of Britain and the United States, the two main donors involved in efforts to combat narcotics in Afghanistan, but both countries have denied any involvement. 33 NATIONAL 34-41 Bush Pushes for Spy Bill President Bush sought to stem a near-rebellion by members of his own party by describing a sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill they oppose as an effort to fight terrorism and calling for its passage during a brief Congressional session next week. 1 Texas Death Penalty Cases The Supreme Court appears poised to deliver a fourth reversal of a decision made by one of the two courts that review the state's death penalty cases. The actions of the two appeals courts may help explain why the state leads the nation in execution. 1 SCIENCE/HEALTH Concerns Over Medicare A wide range of experts on long-term care say the new Medicare law appears to be unworkable for most of the 1.5 million Americans who live in nursing homes and cannot easily shop around for insurance plans to find the bargains on their drugs, as other Medicare beneficiaries are supposed to do. 38 OBITUARIES 51 NEW YORK/REGION 43-50 Doubts Voiced Over Kerik As Bernard Kerik moves toward becoming Homeland Security secretary, some are questioning whether that unwieldy structure can be tamed by a man who comes from an ordered paramilitary world. 1 Neediest Cases 49 Chess 48 Weather 53
Date: 05 December 2004
By Daniel Altman
Daniel Altman
Daniel Altman analysis of what plummeting value of dollar may mean for US economy; if dollar loses value slowly, giving businesses and investors time to adjust spending and portfolios, main effect may be to make American economy more competitive; if dollar takes abrupt dive, companies and consumers may find themselves stripped of purchasing power; permanent change in relative prices of goods and services could hamper long-term economic trends, including growing productivity; photo; graph (M)
Date: 05 December 2004
By Anne Mancuso
Anne Mancuso
Sara Kramer of Upper Nyack, NY, makes her Broadway debut in Mama Mia; photo (M)
Date: 05 December 2004
By Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill
Article by Pete Hamill, veteran newspaper reporter, on Park Row, 18th-century center of New York City's newspaper industry; imagines what it would have been like to work for giants of journalism who are remembered in statues in nearby City Hall Park; recalls learning his craft as young reporter for New York Post; photos (M)
Date: 05 December 2004
By Seth Mnookin
Seth Mnookin
Seth Mnookin reviews book Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta; photo (M)
Date: 05 December 2004
By Greg Myre
Greg Myre
IN the wake of Yasir Arafat's death, the Palestinian leadership closed ranks. But maintaining a unified front is looking increasingly tricky with the Palestinian Authority's presidential election little more than a month away. ''We are facing many contradictions,'' said Mahdi Abdul Hadi, the head of Passia, a Palestinian research organization. ''There is a need for unity. And the political elite say they are following in the footsteps of Arafat. But there is also an angry, frustrated, younger generation that questions whether they can deliver.''
Date: 06 December 2004
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Princess Sayako, 35-year-old daughter of Emperor Akihito of Japan, resisted encouragement to marry when she was in her 20's, becoming symbol of independence for other young women; other Japanese women kept postponing marriage, and country's marriage rate and birth rate kept declining; now Sayako is engaged, to Yoshiki Kuroda; news of their engagement seems to provide hope for parents of other women in their 30's; photos (M)